Embrace!

Exhibition catalogue for the Denver Art Museum
Essays by Christoph Heinrich and Kira van Lil

From artdaily:
Embrace! is an exhibition of unique, site-specific installations in the Museum’s Daniel Libeskind-designed Frederic C. Hamilton Building. Featuring 17 works in a range of media, Embrace! marks one of the largest exhibitions of site specific commissions in a U.S. museum, including never-before-seen works from Katharina Grosse, El Anatsui, Shinique Smith, Matthew Brannon, Jessica Stockholder, Lawrence Weiner and Tobias Rehberger, among others.

Working with Christoph Heinrich, DAM’s deputy director and Mark and Polly Addison Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, each artist has chosen a particular space in which to realize and exhibit an individual work. With projects ranging from Katharina Grosse’s four-story spray painting in the Museum’s atrium to a multimedia presentation by Charles Sandison, the exhibition introduces an extraordinary dialogue between the art and the building’s architectural elements.

“To realize 17 new works from such a talented list of artists is quite spectacular,” Heinrich said. “The artists are excited by the opportunity to work in an engaging and sculptural environment, and each has presented a very individual way to embrace the unique spaces inside the museum and communicate with the architecture. We look forward to seeing how their work will transform the museum and connect visitors with living, breathing artists.”

“As we continue to explore the role of the artist in the museum setting, we have organized what promises to be an engaging and unexpected exhibition,” said DAM Director Lewis Sharp. “We are thrilled to be able to invest in new works and bring such a diverse and important group of contemporary artists to our community.”

2 volumes in a slipcase
volume 1: 160 pages
volume 2: 208 pages
8 x 9 inches